St. Lucie West Services District, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
About St. Lucie West Services District
St. Lucie West Services District serves about 21,400 people through 7,093 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in St. Lucie County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL4565031; phone on file: 772-340-0220. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2020 (1.1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for St. Lucie West Services District is 2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
How St. Lucie West Services District compares
Of the 1,481 Florida systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 3 are over 15 ppb right now and 85 have gone over at some point. St. Lucie West Services District's 1 ppb sits at the 52nd percentile in Florida and the 55th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
18 other systems share St. Lucie County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than St. Lucie West Services District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Port St Lucie Utilities | 224,485 | 4.6 ppb |
| Ft. Pierce Utilities Authority | 58,000 | 1.1 ppb |
| St Lucie County Util North County System | 5,073 | 0.9 ppb |
| North Hutchinson Island | 3,954 | 1 ppb |
| Spanish Lakes Fairways | 3,120 | 0.2 ppb |
| Nettles Island | 3,056 | 1 ppb |
| Indian River Estates | 2,365 | 10 ppb |
| Spanish Lakes Country Club Village | 2,331 | 0.3 ppb |
| Harbour Ridge | 1,573 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grove , The | 1,125 | 0.5 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Port St Lucie, FL may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask St. Lucie West Services District whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.